Poet Quotes

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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a… — Hannah Arendt
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that… — Paul Auster
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of… — Paul Auster
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right… — Chinua Achebe
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in… — Margaret Atwood
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — Wystan Hugh Auden
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. — Wystan Hugh Auden
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. — Wystan Hugh Auden
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. — Amelia Barr
Always be a poet, even in prose. — Charles Baudelaire
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. — Charles Baudelaire
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. — Charles Baudelaire
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. — Charles Baudelaire
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. — Samuel Beckett
Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for… — Benazir Bhutto

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